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TUESDAY, JAN. 25, 2005

Huckleberries (1/25/05)

Photo/Idaho Public Television: Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis arguing in February 2004 for a law that would ban kids under 14 from getting a piercing anywhere but on the ear lobe. Now, he wants to allow legislative committees to close their proceedings any time they…

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Angry Commentator lists her faves

The Angry Commentator is one of the more entertaining bloggers on the North Idaho roll. And she's an avid online reader. Yesterday, she listed her favorite online papers (and this has nothing to do with the S-R/Huckleberries high ranking ... wink) and provided some good…

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Q & A

Question: (from Scott Burrington/Liberty Lake): My friends and I used to listen to Richard Clear (pictured) on KGA, but no more. He no longer is on, and we haven’t heard any statement regarding the status of his show. Was it cancelled? He seemed to level…

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Quick Fix 6 (1/25/05)

You want pictures of the storms in the Northeast? Huckleberries has Associated Press pictures of storms in the Northeast (40 of them, courtesy of World magazine) here.APhoto: Airport crews remove snow from LaGuardia Airport in New York Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005. Nearly 500 flights were…

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MONDAY, JAN. 24, 2005


Best of the Local Blogs

*CDADave provides Everyman's perspective of the passing of the late, great Johnny Carson here.*Henry Johnston of My 2 Cents got hot under the collar when a breakdown in communications cost him $1.75 at a Moscow car wash here.*Marianne Love of Slight Detour provides an excerpt…

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Q & A

Question (from Doug Burr): Do your editors "get it" yet? Are they understanding that you speak for more than yourself in these columns? Hope so; the promise of a free press is often more evident than the freedom is expressed within some newspapers. I'm largely…

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Best of the Northwest (1/24/05)

Online Gonzaga Bulletin has posted letters in memory of Brian Brett and Peter Tripp, the two GU students who were killed recently in an Idaho avalance. You can find "A Tribue to Brian and Pete" here. (Requires free online registration.) Also, you can find a…

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Ah'm your Huckleberry

Teacher Sally Loveless was watching her fourth-graders at Sandpoint's Washington Elementary file out the door for recess, when she noticed one was downtrodden. What's up? she asked the tyke. "I left my dollar for the salami at home," the youngster replied. Sally: For what? Fourth-grader:…

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Q & A

Question (from my sister, Lil in Manteca, Calif.) What's a blog?Answer: A blog is an online column of sorts, which can be written in the form of political commentary with links galore, or focus on an area of expertise, as a journal, or a mix,…

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FRIDAY, JAN. 21, 2005

Craig's office welcomes bloggers

We here in Senator Craig’s office feel that bloggers can be an important and effective means of communicating with Idahoans. We plan to deal with bloggers as we do with TV, radio, and newspaper reporters: on an individual basis. Our relationship with Dave Oliveria, as…

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S-R blogging: A conspiracy?

In her TGIF morning Slight Detour, Marianne Love writes:My son thinks Mr. Huckleberry of Blogdom has a secret motive behind his promotion of the Spokesman-Review blogging seminar for North Idahoans. He worries that too many blogs may signal the end to the morning "Handle." That…

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S-R Headlines (1/21/05)

*STA executive Kim Zentz stepping down: CEO to replace Patrick Tam as head of SIRTI/Tom Sowa, S-R: The transit authority's loss is definitely the research and technology institute's gain. Quality gal.*Community comes to aid of officer: Kralicek remains in critical condition after shooting/Jesse Tinsley, S-R:…

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THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 2005

Huckleberries (1/20/05)

5:11 p.m. Extra! Extra! Lake City High now has an underground e-zine. And everything sucks, according to the young Bush-bashing editors. The U.N. sucks. So does the Pledge of Allegiance. Ditto, finals week, Fight for the Fish, Wal-Mart and even vegans and the Bible. Sorta…

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Vava-Voom

Phil Corless of The Old Goat Trail (nee The CDA Blog) posted the latest, revealing shots of Miss Idaho (Caution: Bikini model shown) here.

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The Angry Commentator posts a column ...

...by columnist Tim Woodward of The Idaho Statesman responding to Jeff Foxworthy's "You Know You're A True Idahoan" here and adds a few "truisms" of her own, including: "You check out the real natives by asking them who their birth doctor was."For JoAnne's blog, click…

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Quick Fix 6 (1/20/05)

'Tis a glorious day in Red State Idaho and Eastern Washington: Dubya's officially beginning term No. 2. (All that hissing and booing in the background are hung over Washington Demos who've been celebrating the theft of their governor's seat for the last week.) Polls show…

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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19, 2005

Hot Potatoes (1/19/04)

5:27 p.m. I finished writing an editorial endorsing the library. No great shakes that, except that I was one of the people who had to be won over re. location and the broken promise not to use public funds to build the new facility. Bottom…

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Indeed, he been laudin'

As you probably know, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to confirm Condi Rice as secretary of state 16-2, with only Sore Loser John Kerry and uber-Lefty Barbara Boxer of California voting "no" here. Now, Hot Potatoes reader John Austin offers:I was watching the Condoleezza…

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Post Falls Uncensored is back with ...

...entertaining quotes from around campus, including:Boy #1: "You know that stick thing with like a sharp thing on the end...like a...um...?"Boy #2: "Oh a spear?"Boy #1: "Yeah yeah - that's it. Yeah, and they were all stabbing. They fought all old school and stuff, you…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.